Every filing period on record, as reported. One column per filed period — a period with no column is a period with no filing, not a zero.
Basis · Amendments and terminations supersede the original report for the same registrant, client and period, so a revised quarter is counted once at its latest filed value. Registration-only filings carry no activity money and are excluded from these totals.
Who they lobby for
This registrant files only on its own behalf — it has never reported a fee for representing anyone else.
Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee charged to a client.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD · 1 client
68 filings
$13.9M on those filings
Marine/Maritime/Boating/Fisheries
MAR · 1 client
68 filings
$13.9M on those filings
Transportation
Who does the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this registrant's filings.
Paul C Rohde75 filings1 client · through 2026
Tracy ZeaCovered position: Staff Member, House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, Subcommittee on Water Resources and the Environment50 filings1 client · through 2026
Michael James Toohey34 filings1 client · through 2020
Dustin Henry DavidsonCovered position: Legislative Assistant for Congressman Garrett Graves (LA-6) and professional staff for the Select Committee on Climate Crisis16 filings1 client · through 2024
Jennifer Schenck Clerk, Senate Appropriations, Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development Project Manager, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Construction Manager, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
The filings
The 20 most recent of 68 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
This record groups every filed spelling of the registrant's name into one entity, so punctuation variants of the same firm read as one. The grouping is the registrant's normalized name — firms that file under genuinely different names appear separately. Handle: waterways-council-inc.
Reading this · An LD-2 reports either a fee the registrant charged or expenses it spent, never both on one filing, so the two lists above are different quantities and are ranked separately rather than against each other. The expenses basis is what an organization lobbying on its own behalf files — usually for itself, sometimes for an affiliate under a different name — so a name on the second list is the client the filing names, not necessarily a claim that the registrant lobbied for someone else's account. Across every relationship on file — not just those shown — this registrant reported $0 in fees and $13.9M in expenses.
TRA · 1 client
68 filings
$13.9M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX · 1 client
58 filings
$11.7M on those filings
Note · A filing names one to several issue areas and reports a single dollar figure for the period, so the same money appears beside every issue that filing declares. The dollar column is therefore money on filings that named this issue — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
Covered position:
12 filings1 client · through 2026
JOHN S DOYLE jrCovered position: Min.Counsel, House WaterResources Subcmte11 filings1 client · through 2011
Cornel James MartinCovered position: Panama Canal/OCS Subcmte(HouseMerMar Cmte)8 filings1 client · through 2011
Ross Barry Palmer5 filings1 client · through 2008
Covered positions · 5 of 8 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. A covered official position is the LD-2 field a lobbyist uses to report having held one; the text is reproduced exactly as filed.
